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title: what did the General dress up as at the ball? — Andersen, George and Emily, part 158:… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the General dress up as at the ball? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 947 «Andersen, George and Emily, part 158: the saddle, the masked ball, and George's dinner invitation» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen, George and Emily, part 158: the saddle, the mask…

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what did the General dress up as at the ball?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** General · **What happens:** do, dress up

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 947 «Andersen, George and Emily, part 158: the saddle, the masked ball, and George's dinner invitation» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/947-pg27200-part158/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:947-pg27200-part158:t12:1
# text = what did the General dress up as at the ball?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	General	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
5	dress	dress	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dress up** | present | the General |  |  |  |  | as the ball | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A Spanish knight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:947-pg27200-part158:t12:o1:1
# text = A Spanish knight
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Van Dyck, in a Flemish cape

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:947-pg27200-part158:t12:o2:1
# text = Van Dyck, in a Flemish cape
1	Van	Van	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Dyck	Dyck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Flemish	flemish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Rubens, in a Spanish costume

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:947-pg27200-part158:t12:o3:1
# text = Rubens, in a Spanish costume
1	Rubens	Rubens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	costume	costume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a Roman soldier, in armour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:947-pg27200-part158:t12:o4:1
# text = a Roman soldier, in armour
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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